percentage.
The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
Meaning & usage
The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.
A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
Benefit or advantage.
There was no percentage in staying at home.
Where this word comes from
From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate).
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